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• "From the Deep Blue Sea to the Great White Way" charts Ariel's journey to Broadway

  Jim Hill reviews Michael Lassell’s latest making-of book for Disney Theatrical Productions. Which reveals how Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” went from being an Academy Award-winning animated feature to becoming a popular musical for the stage Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: theater, Broadway, Andreas Deja, Ron Clements, John Musker, Lunt-Fontanne Theater, Julie Taymor, ASIFA-Hollywood, Tom Sito, Broadway musical, stage version, animated feature, Thomas Schumacher, Michael Lassell, stage, Woodbury University, The Little Mermaid, designer, Fletcher Jones Foundation Library, 20th anniversary

• A special "May the (Stephen) Schwartz Be With You" edition of Why For

  Jim Hill's back with even more answers to your Disney-related questions. This time around, he talks about "Enchanted" 's score evolves over the course of that motion picture, where Stephen drew his inspiration for "Out There" as well as talking up an event that's being held at Woodbury University this coming Monday night Read More... Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: animation, book, Disney, music, Broadway, musical, Disney Theatrical, Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, Kevin Lima, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, James Baxter, James Baxter Animation, Stephen Schwartz, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Paris, Kiss the Girl, ASIFA-Hollywood, panel discussion, stage version, ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, 2008, October, animated feature, 2007, Happy Working Song, So Close, That's How You Know , animators , Mulan, Belle, Warner Bros. , 2010, Don Hahn , stage, Woodbury University, Pocahontas, Broadway-bound, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Disney Music , Carol de Giere, Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz from Godspell to Wicked, Enchanted, The Alchemy of Animation: Making an Animated Film in the Modern Age, Craig Lucas, James Lapine, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Out There, Quasimodo, Hunchback, Mike Belzer, Nik Ranieri, Fletcher Jones Foundation Library, Fletcher Jones, Ever After, Ever

• Instead of a Why For this week, how about a Where For ?

  This time around, Jim Hill talks up various Disney & animation-related events that are happening all around the U.S. over the next two weeks Read More... Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Pixar, Broadway, High School Musical, Disney Theatrical, Anaheim, Orlando, Tinker Bell, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, Manhattan, Feld Entertainment, YouTube, Los Angeles, Burbank, NYC, Florida, Walt Disney Studios, Las Vegas, California, LA, ASIFA-Hollywood, American Film Institute, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, Grim Natwick, Connecticut, MiceAge, MousePlanet, LaughingPlace, WDWMagic, screening, panel discussion, OceanEars, National Fantasy Fan Club, Disneyana Enthusiasts, Rhode Island, Crowne Plaza, Warwick, Margaret Kerry, actress, Tinker Bell Talks! Tales of a Pixie Dusted Life, Sherman Oaks, NFFC, Studio Chapter in Los Angeles, Westfield Shopping Town Fashion Square, David Koenig, Realityland: True-Life Adventures of Walt Disney World, Character Warehouse, AMS, Assets Management & Sales LLC, White House, Orangefair Marketplace, Fullerton, The Annex at Las Vegas Factory Outlets, Las Vegas Factory Outlets, Puente Hills Mall, City of Industry, Mesa Pavilions, Mesa, 5th Avenue, flagship store, Disney Bear, Santa Mickey, Reindeer Pluto, Reel Appeal, Alameda, furniture, Bedknobs & Broomsticks, The Sword in the Stone, Dave Smith, Disney Archives, stagehands, road company, Broadway musical, Disney's High School Musical on Tour, stage version, Disney Channel Original, HSM, Playhouse Square Center, Cleveland, Providence Center for the Performing Arts, Ohio, Disney Live!, Playhouse Disney Live!, Wicomico Youth and Civic Center, Salisbury , Maryland, Veterans Memorial Arena, Binghamton, ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, Grim Natwick's Scrapbook, Heart Box, Emery Ed Fund, Pixar campus, Van Eaton Galleries, Jerry Beck, The Hanna-Barbera Treasury, JHM